All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions
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All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions | |
Ogólnopolskie Porozumienie Związków Zawodowych | |
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Website | opzz.org.pl |
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The All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions (Polish: Ogólnopolskie Porozumienie Związków Zawodowych, OPZZ) is a national trade union center founded in 1984.
History
Following the decisions of the Polish government declaring the
In 2006 the OPZZ affiliated to the European Trade Union Confederation and the International Trade Union Confederation.
In the summer of 2006,
Activities
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The mission of OPZZ is stated as the defence of social and worker's right of the trade unions. OPZZ has strongly supported the demands of state owned industry sector.
The OPZZ is governed by Congress (Kongres), Council (Rada) and Presidium (Prezydium).
OPZZ associates 90 nationwide trade union organisations (uniform trade unions and federations) grouped in 12 branches:
- Raw materials and power industry
- Manufacturing
- Education, science and culture
- Health care and social insurance
- Agriculture and food economy
- Construction, forestry, wood industry, environment protection and water economy
- Municipal economy
- Co-operatives
- Trade and services
- Transport and maritime economy
- Railways
- Communication
OPZZ also has its internal territorial structures, with territorial range corresponding to the administrative division of the country. These are voivodship (regional) councils (16) and powiat (district) councils (240).
In 2013, the OPZZ was estimated to have 500,000 members.[2]
Presidents of OPZZ
- Alfred Miodowicz (1984 – 1991)
- Ewa Spychalska (1991 – 1996)
- Józef Wiaderny (1996 – 2002)
- Maciej Manicki (2002 – 2004)
- Jan Guz (2004 – 2019)
- Andrzej Radzikowski (2019 – 2022)
- Piotr Ostrowski (since 2022)
References
- ^ "Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)". International Labour Organization. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ^ "Trade Unions: Poland". Worker Participation.EU. ETUI. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
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